Everett-Green Evelyn. In the Wars of the Roses: A Story for the Young
Chapter 1: A Brush With The Robbers
Chapter 2: A Hospitable Shelter
Chapter 3: A Strange Encounter
Chapter 4: Paul's Kinsman
Chapter 5: In Peril
Chapter 6: In The Hands Of The Robbers
Chapter 7: The Protection Of The Protected
Chapter 8: The Rally Of The Red Rose
Chapter 9: The Tragedy Of Tewkesbury
Chapter 10: The Prince Avenged
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This cry, growing feebler at each repetition, was borne by the evening breeze to the ears of a traveller who was picking his way along the dark mazes of Epping Forest one cool, fresh October day. Instinctively he drew rein and listened, laying his band unconsciously upon the hilt of his poniard.
"A woman's voice," he said half aloud, as he spurred more rapidly onward in the direction whence the cry proceeded. "A woman set upon, no doubt, by some band of these marauders who are desolating the country and disgracing humanity. Cowards! I wonder how many of them there are? A solitary traveller has not much chance against a gang of them; but at least I can sell my life dear. I have little enough to live for now; and it would be a stain for ever upon my father's fame were I to pass by unheeding the cry of a damsel in distress.
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The girl shuddered strongly.
"Once he lived in our village-Much Waltham, as it is called. He was no robber then; but a proper youth enough; and although I was but a little maid, not grown to womanhood, he asked my hand of my father in marriage."
